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To the Editor: Is Thomas Powers warning us of factual inaccuracy and scurrilous innuendo when he says that Susan Braudy tells the story of the Boudin family ''with a novelist's progression of incident and detail'' in her book ''Family Circle''...

November 30, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: I was troubled by Thomas Powers's assertion, in his review of Susan Braudy's ''Family Circle'' (Nov. 2), that Kathy Boudin and the violent wing of the New Left constituted a ''failure'' -- ''as pointless and damaging, in its way, as...

February 23, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: In his review of Michael Beschloss's new book, ''The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945'' (Dec. 1), Thomas Powers indulges in a pathetically trite kind of historical reasoning when he...

January 5, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: Once and for all, let us bury a canard that reappeared in the otherwise excellent review by Thomas Powers of ''The Conquerors,'' by Michael Beschloss. Winston Churchill was not surprised during the Casablanca conference in January...

January 5, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''Frayn Takes Stock of Bohr Revelations'' (Arts & Ideas pages, Feb. 9) and ''New Twist on Physicist's Role in Nazi Bomb'' (front page, Feb. 7): Regarding the letters that Niels Bohr drafted but never sent to his friend Werner...

February 16, 2002, Saturday

To the Editor: In his otherwise excellent review of Joseph E. Persico's fine book ''Roosevelt's Secret War'' (Oct. 21), Thomas Powers perpetuates a myth about Pearl Harbor -- namely, that intelligence was available that, had it been properly...